diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index cf93a38a5..ffbf12dbc 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -749,7 +749,6 @@ set(ZIG_STAGE2_SOURCES
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/libunwind.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link/C.zig"
-    "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link/C/zig.h"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link/Coff.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link/Elf.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/link/MachO.zig"
diff --git a/src/link/C/zig.h b/lib/include/zig.h
similarity index 100%
rename from src/link/C/zig.h
rename to lib/include/zig.h
diff --git a/src/link/C.zig b/src/link/C.zig
index 4159a577d..c56327ad6 100644
--- a/src/link/C.zig
+++ b/src/link/C.zig
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const Air = @import("../Air.zig");
 const Liveness = @import("../Liveness.zig");
 
 pub const base_tag: link.File.Tag = .c;
-pub const zig_h = @embedFile("C/zig.h");
+pub const zig_h = "#include <zig.h>\n";
 
 base: link.File,
 /// This linker backend does not try to incrementally link output C source code.